What do you like doing? SEVY Awards 2020

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Welcome to the 2020 SEVY Awards The awards for students who rise to the challenge
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of speaking English.
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Speaking English to the world!
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We're thrilled to present members of the Simple English Videos family.
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People from all over the world who've risen to our communication challenge.
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People of great courage!
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And amazing creativity.
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At a time when we're on lock down from the corona virus.
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And many of you are too.
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Let's share and connect.
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Hey, this is exciting.
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Yeah.
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For the last two weeks we've been waking up and finding amazing videos in our mailbox.
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Congratulations to everyone who took part.
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You've all won a SEVY.
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That stands for Simple English Videos - Yay, you did it!
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This year's challenge was to answer the question 'What do you like doing?"
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And boy did we get some great answers.
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Let's see the first one.
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Hi.
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My name is Jakub.
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I'm from Poland.
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What I love doing is wild life photography.
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I've been photographing wildlife since I was eight.
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I have recently taken up micro photography and underwater photography.
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Would you like to see some of my photographs?
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Yes.
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Here you go!
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Wow.
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Oh my goodness.
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That's beautiful.
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I know.
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I also make videos. and I use English for the descriptions so your channel is very helpful.
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Your channel is great.
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Bye!
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Jakub, your photos were amazing.
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And you win the SEVY for the best wildlife photography.
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If people want to see more of your photographs, I'm going to put the link to your channel
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below.
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Go check it out.
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OK, what's next?
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Hello, my name is Derya.
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Here's Onur.
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He's three years old.
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He's my baby boy and I'm a full-time mother.
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I know I'm speaking so fast but I know I have a little short time.
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So I love spending time with my sweetie.
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Right now we are painting and I'm teaching him English as I can, now Onur is going to
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say you the colours.
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Onur, which colour is it?
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Blue.
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Good job!
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Which colour is it?
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Red.
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Yes.
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And this is me.
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I hope you like the video.
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Bye-bye.
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Oh wow.
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Derya, we loved the video.
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And Onur wins the prize for being the youngest, cutest English speaker.
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And you win the SEVY for being the best parent in a video.
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And the best English teacher too.
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Right.
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OK, let's see what's next.
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Hello Jay and Vicki and hello to those viewers who might watch in the future.
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And greetings from China.
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I'm Novem from China.
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I'm a college student majoring in building automation and I'm a senior this year.
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I would like to join this speaking challenge but it's my first time to record such a video
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so I'm a little nervous, but I do like to answer that question.
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First I would say I absolutely like the channel of Simple English Videos because they really
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help me a lot with my English.
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And also I like playing basketball, swimming, mountain climbing and horse riding.
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But because of the corona virus these days in China, I can only stay at home, which is
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really boring.
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But as you can see behind me, the sky is really blue and the weather is really nice so I get
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a chance to take a walk in the park and record this video.
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I really appreciate this chance to join this competition, and thank you again Jay and Vicki,
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I just can't thank you enough.
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OK.
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Bye-bye.
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Bye-bye.
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You are very welcome.
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And thank you for recording the video.
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Novem that was really interesting.
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Thank you for sending that.
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You said you were nervous but you came across... you hid your nerves and came across very confidently.
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And you win the SEVY for a great British accent and excellent pronunciation.
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Yeah.
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Next one.
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Hey, Vicki and Jay.
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Great to meet you again, although we meet quite often thanks to your videos.
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They're just masterpieces.
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My name is Bozhena, not Bohdan, because in a previous video you called me Bohdan, but
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in Ukrainian it's a male name.
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But I'm a girl!
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I'm thirteen years old and I take elective classes in English.
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Except English, my hobby is drawing.
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I like to draw sketches.
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Why do I like to do it?
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Wow!
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Because they are understandable and simple positive, like your videos.
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Our teacher said that we should learn to see simplicity as genius, and I try to achieve,
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at least, a small success.
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Bozhena, did I say that right?
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Is that correct?
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Bozhena?
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I have to tell you that you win the SEVY for drawing.
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That was spectacular.
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And also I want to give you a SEVY for improvement in... not confidence because your were confident
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last time we saw you, but your fluency was just amazing.
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Really, really good.
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Lovely to see you again and thank you for sharing those drawings.
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We loved them.
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Manga-style!
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OK, let's see another one.
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Now, before you watch this one, it needs some explanation.
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Marina shot this at an International Women's Day event in Russia, where she was invited
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to perform.
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And there's some background music, and I'm hoping that the tool YouTube uses to spot
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music won't wipe the music out so you can still hear her.
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But in case you can't., I've put captions up.
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Hello Vicki and Jay.
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I'm an English teacher but besides that, I like dancing belly dancing.
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Bye.
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Oh she's really good.
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Marina, you looked amazing.
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It was wonderful.
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You know which SEVY she wins.
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What's that?
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The SEVY for belly dancing!
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Of course!
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We loved it.
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Thank you so much for sending it.
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Let's see the next one.
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Hello everyone.
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I'm Vicki and I'm British.
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I'm Jay and I'm American.
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So I've heard that Jay finds some troubles believing that my accent is the best.
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True!
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Unfortunately I can't argue with his because my accent prevents me from being hostile.
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It's well known for its quietness and easiness actually.
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Yeah, it's well understandable and slowly spoken as well, but...
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Wait, wait.
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Who said that?
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British accent isn't at all (like that) but my accent is.
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And you can witness that by seeing programs and movies.
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You know, they prefer speaking in an American accent to Vicki's accent.
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So I think my accent wins.
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No, no.
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You won't win.
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You know we are not in a war of accents.
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Don't be nervous, Jay.
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Oh, I'm not nervous.
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I'm just relaxing right now.
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You must admit that you love the way I speak...
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[An argument breaks out] [French voice] Before the video ends, I'd like to thank you
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so much Jay and Vicki for your interesting videos and it doesn't matter actually what
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accent you speak, as long as the listener understands.
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This is the idea of the video.
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Good luck English learners and bye.
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Oh Abdo, that was absolutely amazing!
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He's... he's so funny.
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He has to win...
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He has to win the SEVY for the best parody.
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Oh, I would agree, but I thought his imitation of you was right on!
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And actually you made a really important point about accents.
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We both agree with you on that one.
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We loved it.
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Thank you for being so creative.
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Next one.
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Hi Vicki and Jay.
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My name is Quyhn.
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I'm fourteen years old.
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I'm from Viet Nam.
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What I love doing in my free time is watching English videos on YouTube.
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My favourite channels are Simple English Videos and English with Lucy.
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That's all.
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Thanks for watching.
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Good-bye.
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She's adorable.
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It was so mice to see you again, Quyhn.
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And we want to give you a pronunciation SEVY, because your pronunciation was so clear.
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Spectacular job!
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And you were so confident.
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Thank you very much for the video.
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Oh hello.
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Hello Mrs Vicki and Mr Jay.
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My name is Leven ... and I am from Sakartvelo, also known as Georgia.
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My favourite thing to do is botany.
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And here am I in my greenhouse now.
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So I like to take care of my plants.
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So I'm going to show you something here - a mint family thing - that's called lemon balm
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I'm growing here.
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Wow!
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So it is here and it looks pretty healthy, huh?
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Yes!
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Leven, that's terrific.
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Those plants are much better than the ones Vicki grows on the deck.
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Hey!
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Leven, you win the SEVY for green fingers.
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If you have green fingers you can grow things very well.
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In America we don't say green fingers.
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We say green thumb.
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Oh all right then.
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Green fingers.
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Green thumb.
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That's your SEVY.
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WE loved seeing your plants.
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Thanks so much for sharing that.
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OK.
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Hello my name is Alice and I'm French.
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I love running, reading, writing, learning a lot of things, and greatest above all, watching
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simple English videos.
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Alice, that was so mice.
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It's lovely to meet you.
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Thank you.
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Alice, you win the prize for bravery.
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It can take a lot of courage to make a video in another language and I know you were worried
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that you might sound ridiculous.
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You didn't.
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You sounded great.
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It was very clear and easy to understand and thank you for doing that.
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Bravo!
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Hello Vicki, Hello Jay.
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I'm Christophe from Berlin Germany.
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I'm 19 years old and I love drinking tea.
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He's got good taste.
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Oh I think he should try coffee.
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It's so delicious.
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Of course I like watching your videos too.
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They are amazing.
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Have a nice day!
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Thank you Christophe.
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That tea did look good even though I prefer coffee.
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You win the SEVY for excellent English and taste.
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And for the best tea cup.
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Lovely to meet you.
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Thank you for sending that.
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Good morning Vicki.
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Good morning Jay.
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Thanks for this opportunity.
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I'm Vinicio Fuertes.
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I'm from Ecuador.
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I really like watching videos on YouTube - a lot of kinds of videos.
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For example games, music and songs.
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But these days I am practicing jogging, and I really like it.
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However, the most enjoyable thing for me is going for a walk with my dog, because when
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we are in the park we can play and we can have fun.
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So that's it.
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Thank you so much.
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Bye.
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Goodbye Vinicio.
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You know what?
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I always liked walking with my dog too.
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I understand that.
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Vinicio, you win the SEVY for fluency.
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You just went for it and you were so fluent, it was really impressive.
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And we think you're going to go far.
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Well done!
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Thanks for the video.
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Hello Vicki and Jay.
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I'm Pipino from Tblisi, Georgia.
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I am a dog, as you see.
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I am also the most beloved in my family and the most kind-hearted.
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Today I want to tell you what I love doing in my leisure time.
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I major in eating and devouring a lot of food.
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I love running and playing, especially with a ball or toys.
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My favourite hobby is stealing things such as books of jewellry from mommy.
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Sometimes I get punished, but by licking them, I get forgiven so easily.
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I love singing, but in dogs language.
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You can see here.
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Thank you.
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Simple English Videos Yay!
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Nina, that was amazing.
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Erm Pipino is adorable....
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A star!
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And able to speak English, beautifully!
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I want to see that singing again.
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Hang on.
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Incredible.
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Nina, you should win a SEVY for creativity.
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Thank you very much.
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What a great laugh!
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Love it!
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OK.
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Hello.
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My name is Saad-Ali Khan and I am from Pakistan.
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I love to make drawing videos and I love Simple English Video's channel.
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Saad-Ali.
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Nice to meet you and thank you for sending us the video.
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So he makes drawing videos?
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Yes, they're videos about maps and how to draw maps.
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Wow!
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Then he wins the map drawing SEVY.
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Yeah!
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I found them on his channel.
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I'll put the link below.
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Thank you for sending us that video, Saad-Ali.
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Hi.
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I'm Roxana.
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I'm from Romania.
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You know, the country from where the Dracula phenomenon spread all over the world.
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Well today I'm going to share with you two things about me.
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The first thing is that I'm into arts and crafts.
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Like these adorable hearts that go so well for Mother's Day.
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You can stick it to your T shirt.
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The second thing is that despite coming from Romania, the home of vampires, ghosts, zombies,
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you name it, we are nothing else but friendly adorable people, so don't be afraid of us!
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Have a lovely day.
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Bye!
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Roxana, you have a wonderful sense of hu mor.
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Thank you for that.
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I want to meet Roxana.
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Roxana, we're going to give you the SEVY for being entertaining.
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We loved it.
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And you're not scary at all.
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Hello Vicki, hello Jay.
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My name is Dicky and I'm from Indonesia.
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So this is my second time joining the SEVY.
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I love learning languages, including Japanese and English.
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I learn English a lot from your videos.
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Thank you for your videos.
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They're all very useful for me.
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Thank you.
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Bye!
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Dicky, thank you so much.
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It's good to see you again.
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Thanks for submitting another video.
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And we think your English is getting even better so we want to give you the SEVY award
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for improvement this year.
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Well done.
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Hello.
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Speaking of my hobbies.
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I actually love learning languages, especially Chinese and English.
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And I fall in love...
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I've been falling in love with language learning for many years.
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And I always turn my bedroom into a learning library - a language learning library.
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You can take a look at my learning library, that supports who I am today.
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Now that's Bank.
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Where's Bank from?
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Bank's from Thailand but he's learning Chinese and English.
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You know Bank, that's a really impressive set of books you've got in that library.
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I loved looking at them and I recognised some of the publishers.
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That was fun to see.
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Bank you earn the SEVY for the best independent language learner.
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Congratulations!
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Hi.
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I'm Wiktor and I am from Poland.
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I live in Lodz in the middle of the country.
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I like recoding and watching films on YouTube, especially Simple English Videos.
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I like scuba diving.
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I;m very good at this sport.
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And for the end, I play in a volley kicks team.
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I really love playing with my friends from school.
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Bye!
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OK, so Wiktor, I understand what scuba diving is, but what's volley kicks?
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I looked...
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I googled it and it's like football where you don't let the ball touch the ground.
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You mean like soccer but you don't let the ball touch the ground.
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You have to be very athletic to play it, 'cause you can't just kick the ball along the ground.
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Wiktor, we're going to have to give you the athletic SEVY because you're clearly really
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athletic.
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Well done, we loved your video.
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Thanks a lot.
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Hello Miss Vicki and Mr Jay.
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Thanks for this nice challenge.
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This is Marcello from Chile and what I love doing is playing basketball.
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It's an excellent exercise.
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I'm used to playing basketball alone, both for relaxing and for exercising a little bit.
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And finally I'm going to score a basket, for you guys.
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And before, I want to say that exercise bouncing the ball is really useful.
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It has...
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It has low impact.
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Perhaps if you suffer from stress of your knee or things like that, this exercise of
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bouncing a ball and scoring a basket is great.
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Let's try.
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I'm going to jump.
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Wow!
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I enjoy it so much.
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OK, thank you very much guys.
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That's some of the best dribbling I've ever seen.
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When you bounce the ball it's called dribbling in basketball.
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Yeah, all right.
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Marcello, it was lovely to see you again, and thanks so much for that, and for the tip
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as well.
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Now Marcello, you get the SEVY for the best two pointer.
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What's a two pointer?
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Well, when you score a basket, when you get the basketball through the net close to the
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basket, it's worth two points.
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The best two-pointer.
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Thank you, Marcello.
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Hello.
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I'm Gala from Russia.
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I'm a typical woman and I like doing simple things such as knitting or cooking while listening
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to the radio.
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One day there was a quiz on the radio about Abba.
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The Abba.
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The group.
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And I happened to win a prize - a trip to Sweden.
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Yay!
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I hadn't got a visa and I had to fly to Moscow to provide my biometric data.
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Ah yeah.
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And then I was waiting for a visa at home, and then they called me and said I need a
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code.
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And so I should go back to Moscow to provide my biometry again.
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Oh no!
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I should, but anyway, it would be too late to be on time for the trip.
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Ah!
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Unlucky me.
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Yes!
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A few days ago, I received a totally unexpected package with a T-shirt, a bag ...
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Oh yeah.
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And a few other things.
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Oh terrific.
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And some other things with symbols of Abba.
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Yay!
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And that's fine.
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Go Gala!
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Fine.
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I do like the group and I also like dancing to their music and singing along to their
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songs... along with their songs.
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Oh Gala!
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That was such a sad story.
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Our daughter-in-law is Russian too, and she has trouble getting visas as well so I really
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sympathize with that story.
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I'm so sorry you couldn't go to Sweden.
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So what is the SEVY that we can give to Gala?
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Well, Gala it has to be the SEVY for the best story.
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We did enjoy it and it had a sort of happy ending.
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I did love all the gear you got.
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Thanks for sending us that.
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Welcome.
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This is Javier.
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Thank you for watching my presentation.
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Maps and geography are my passion.
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Like a geographer, I'm focusing now on helping people to discover the world walking through
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the geography.
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I'm an enthusiastic person when it comes to hiking.
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And that's it.
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I love geography and see you soon.
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If you want to know more about my work, that is my hobby, you can visit my website walkexperience.org.
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Bye-bye.
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You know that was actually really very interesting.
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Thank you, Javier.
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What place did he mention?
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He mentioned a place in the Pyrenees, so between France and Spain.
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And he arranges walking experiences for people designed specially for them.
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I would enjoy that very much.
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Now what SEVY should we give Javier?
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It's enthusiasm, isn't it?
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It's got to be enthusiasm.
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It shone right through Javier.
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Thanks for talking to us about that.
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Good evening Jay and Vicki.
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Good evening.
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My name is Michael.
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I'm speaking from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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So as requested by you, I'm recording this video from my work.
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I work in a hotel as a receptionist.
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I work in a small city whose name is Itacuruca.
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It's a beautiful city located in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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I love o study English.
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I love to speak in English.
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I love, too, watching some English movies.
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I've been learning English since I was twelve years old.
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I'm now 45 years old.
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I'm still learning English, and I'm learning from your videos.
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I'm learning from you and I can see the difference between British English and American English
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from your videos.
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Thanks for this opportunity you are giving me to record this video for your channel.
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So I'm sharing your channel with my friends who are learning English here in Brazil.
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And I love to listen to music, and I love watching movies, and I love to learn English.
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God bless you, Vicki.
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God bless you Jay.
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Thanks for teaching me the difference between British English and American English.
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God bless you.
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Thanks for this opportunity.
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This is my by little.
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God bless you.
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Thanks for this opportunity.
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Your friend from Brazil, Michael Alexandre.
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Thank you Michael.
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Now we've been to Rio de Janeiro, but have you been to that town?
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Yes.
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26:52
Oh really?
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Yeah, without you.
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Without me.
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Very interesting.
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Michael thanks so much for that and we're really glad we can help you learn English.
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What SEVY should we give Michael?
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Michael is a long term persistent learner who's going up and studying regularly.
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So you get the award for being a long term learner Michael, because you're keeping at
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it.
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A little bit every day.
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It works.
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Thank you very much Michal for sending us that video.
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Good work!
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For some people this speaking challenge is extra difficult because for religious or for
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personal reasons, they can't appear on camera.
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So some of our viewers have some up with amazing creative ways to send us a video.
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Let's look.
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Hi, I'm Sarah.
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I've been watching your videos for a very long time and they've been helping me a lot.
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I would like to thank you for that.
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So to the question what I love doing.
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I love drawing and writing.
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Most of the time I come up with a story and then, after that, I start drawing the characters
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to it.
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Here are a few pictures.
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Wow, look at that!
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Amazing.
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Another artist.
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Well, my absolute favourite thing to do in my free time is learning new things about
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the English culture.
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I love England so much - everything about it really and I'm looking forward to going
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there for the very first time this year.
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I can't wait.
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I've been learning about how much importance English people attach to politeness and the
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weather, not to mention.
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I'm just living for it.
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All the new types of tea I will get to learn about.
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All of the amazing people.
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So yeah, that was it I think.
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Thank you ever so much and have an amazing day.
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Thank you Sarah.
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Once again, as we mentioned last year, you have an accent that is so beautifully English.
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I would never guess that you're not a native speaker.
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That's so impressive.
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I think you're going to have a wonderful time in England and we must say a special congratulations
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to Sarah because she passed her C1 exam this year.
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Yay!
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Go Sarah!
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Now my the way, that artistic work was also spectacular.
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Thanks for sharing that with us.
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Yes, you should have a SEVY for paintings as well.
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Thanks again Sarah.
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Hi Vicki.
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Hi Jay.
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I'm Farshid.
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I love doing my architecture projects.
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These are what I did last semester for my university.
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And this is what I do in my free time.
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And I also like drinking tea.
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Another tea drinker.
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And with Winnie the Poo on his cup!
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You know what was amazing Farshid was the perspective that you're able to get into your
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designs.
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That's really terrific.
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I thought your designs were really interesting.
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I did so enjoy those glimpses.
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And that's what you must have the SEVY for this year, I think.
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Design.
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Thanks a lot Farshid for sending us that video.
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Hi!
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Dear Vicki and Jay, Super Agent, Steffi and everyone.
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I am Simone from Italy.
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C'est une chanson.
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Qui nous resemble.
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Italy, not France.
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Our lovely teachers honoured me by putting my presentation in last year's video.
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É o pau, é a pedra, é o fim do caminho.
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There I didn't film myself, because my face shows my frequent headaches.
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[Italian folk Song] OK, that's an Italian folk song.
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Now Vicki and Jay asked what we like doing.
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Summertime, and the living is easy.
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Can you guess?
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Although my voice has lost its power, I still can't 'cantato' ... not can't sing.
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I wish you all a life full of music and joy and health, since 2020 will be remembered
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for the corona virus.
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Bye!
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32:31
Simone.
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I have to say that your voice hasn't lost anything.
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When you were singing Gershwin, you really got to me.
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It was wonderful.
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And it reminded me of some of the images we've seen this week coming from Italy where everybody
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is on lock down, and of Italians on their balconies.
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Singing in solidarity as a community.
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It's really amazing.
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And I have to say, Simone has been an important part of the Simple English Videos community
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for some years now and I personally want to thank you for all your efforts.
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And to give you the singing SEVY.
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And congratulations to everyone who took part in this challenge.
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We've been blown away by your videos.
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It’s been very motivating for us to meet you and learn more about you.
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Especially at this time when we're on lock down and feeling very isolated.
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If you’ve enjoyed this video, please share it with a friend.
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And don’t forget to subscribe to our channel.
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